Pyrausta purpuralis (Linnaeus, 1758)

common purple & gold

on Thymus

parasite

Larvae in a web.

host plants

Lamiaceae, ? monophagous

Thymus.

References to other Lamiaceae (Mentha; Origanum; Prunella) are dubious; see the elaborate discussion on Lepiforum.

distribution within Europe

(PESI, 2020).

references

Fiumi (2018a), Koren, Vukotić & Črne (2015a), Kravchenko, Poltavsky, Segerer, ao (2020a), Łabanowski & Soika (2012a), Lepiforum (2020), Wegner (2010a).